In the world of politics, this is not an uncommon thing, -- make a statement about something that is being considered in order to test the waters. Consider for example the kerfuffle over the potential of Donald J. Trump's appointment of Mitt Romney as American Secretary of State. I don't believe for one moment that he will do it, but he is sending out a message to test the reaction. Aside from what I really think is Trump's public eviscerating of Romney, as a vanquishment of the man who so attacked him without justification. The people have spoken and won't tolerate it.
Sadly the Vatican practices the same politics. The centre of the Church of Christ on Earth engages such sleazy and vulgar practices. Nobody should be surprised that this "trial balloon" is being floated. I've expected it, in fact, I expect it to happen.
If Bergoglio dares to strip the four Cardinals of their red hats, then he will prove himself to be a vindictive and corrupt man, a narcissist and Peronist. A man who is driven by his own ambition and ego, thinking that every action taken by him and every thought that enters into his mind is divine inspiration. He will, if he does this, enshrine heresy. He will have proclaimed heresy because he will have silenced, or at least removed, all authorised opposition.
And a heretic cannot be Pope!
http://infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=27894
Vito
Pinto Mons. "The four cardinals who have written to Pope could lose their cardinalate"
Mons.
Pío Vito Pinto, Dean of the highest authority of the Catholic Church in the
process of nullity, delivered a lecture at the University Ecclesiastical San
Damaso de Madrid. Vigorously, he has said that the four cardinals who have
asked the Pope Francisco to clarify some doubts about his apostolic exhortation
Laetitia Amoris have committed a grave scandal by publishing this letter in the
media.
The Cardinals have created a scandal? Not the Pope himself who has affirmed that those living in adultery can be openly admitted to Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin? Not the Bishops of Buenos Aires, or the Vicar of Rome?
The Cardinals have every moral and legal right to ask the question and expect an answer. in fact, they have a duty before Christ. Their loyalty, your loyalty and mine is with Christ, not the Pope insofar as he separates himself from Christ's truth. The Pope is not a god. Papolatry is a sin and a scandal and Dean Pinto has committed it. He has committed a scandal by being the mouthpiece of Bergoglio and issuing threats to these four Cardinals, and any others who stand up for the truth of Catholic doctrine and faith.
In
statements to Religion Confidential, Pio Vito has shown that these four
cardinals, like some others in the Church who doubt the reform of Pope Francis
and his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, are questioning " two synods
of bishops on marriage and family do not a synod but two! An ordinary and
another extraordinary. You cannot doubt the action of the Holy Spirit."
This man is deluded. The Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity cannot lie, he cannot change. To suggest that God the Holy Spirit is directing Bergoglio and his minions to destroy Catholic doctrine, sanction mortal sin and permit sacrilege is blasphemy.
The two Synods did not vote to allow Holy Communion for those in adultery. This is a lie. To do that, a Synod would require a two-thirds vote, this did not happen. Nor could it happen. A Synod cannot overturn doctrine. The Pope can ignore a Synod's advice. In this case, he did. He acted in spite of it. The Synod was manipulated, the evidence was there, out in the open attested to be no less than Cardinal Pell. The Pope has no authority to change doctrine, he has no authority to authorise that two-thousand years of Catholic practice can be overturned by one man.
Cardinals
Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Burke, Carlo Caffarra and Joachim Meisner asked the
Holy Father some doubts about the Amoris Laetitia. Pope
Francis did not answer and prelates made the letter public through the
media. "What
Church defends these cardinals? The Pope is faithful to the doctrine of Christ.
What they have done is a very serious scandal that could even lead to the Holy
Father to withdraw the cardinal's hat as has happened at some other time of
the Church," said Pio Vito to this Confidential. The
dean of the Roman Rota clarifies: "Which is not to say that the Pope
withdraw their status as cardinals, but could do."
The Pope
inasmuch as he is supreme pastor of the universal Church, has full right to
remove a bishop or cardinal from his office, even a distinguished one. A
well-known case was the one of Cardinal Louis Billot (1846-1931). He was one of
the greatest theologians of the 20th Century, who replaced his cardinal’s hat
into the hands of Pius XI, with whom he had had differences regarding Action
Francaise, and ended his days, as a simple Jesuit, at the house of his order in
Galloro. Another
striking case is Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, who was removed by Paul VI from his
office as Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary, as a result of his
opposition to the Vatican ostpolitik.
The case of Cardinal Mindszenty was particularly egregious and a disgrace of Paul VI's papacy. Mindszenty was persecuted by the communists. The Vatican's policy of ostpolitik
was a scandal and a betrayal of Catholics now being waged again in China against the underground, faithful Church.
This is also a warning to any other Cardinals and Bishops, particularly those in dioceses, to stand down and keep their mouths shut. As we look around we will see silence from them, until such time perhaps as enough of a force mounts against this error. The reality is in many dioceses, the Ordinary is well aware that this Pope is a vindictive man and will remove them leaving their flock to be devoured by someone of Bergoglio's own choosing. Think Chicago here. I fully expect that the next Cardinal on his way out is Marc Ouellet.
During
the conference, Pius Vito made it clear to the audience that the Pope has not
responded directly to them four cardinals, 'but has indirectly told that they
see only white or black , when in the Church there are shades of colors." Few
Catholics calling for the annulment Confidential
religion also asked Mons. Pius Vito if not better open hand to divorced and
remarried and grant marriage annulment, before a civil marriage so they can
marry in the Church and receive the Eucharist. "The
reform of the marriage process of Pope Francis wants to reach more people. The
percentage of people seeking marriage annulment is very small. The Pope said
that communion is not only good Catholics. Francisco says: how to reach the
most excluded people? Many people, with the reform of Pope may request the
annulment, but not others, "said the Dean of the Roman Rota.
The Cardinal is correct, the actual number of Catholics seeking a Decree of Nullity is very small relative to the number who simply divorce and remarry, civilly. Pope Bergoglio has made the outrageous statement that most Catholic marriages are invalid. If that is the case, then what does it matter, he is right, the presumption that the Sacramental Theology that the Sacraments, including Matrimony, are always valid unless proven otherwise be damned. The Pope had no business making this statement, but the very fact that he did and believes it, leads one to understand his motivation. The reality is that the very few Catholics who divorce and remarry civilly and want to come back to the Sacraments with a true heart and contrition, do; through the usual way - if not possible to return to the real spouse, then repentance, and living a life of continence. I know people who have done this. The actual number of those who wish to return without the normative way is even smaller than those who decide not to seek decrees of nullity in the first place.
In this matter, Pinto is deluded or intentionally misleading. Therefore, there must be another reason why Bergoglio and his minions have gone down this road. More than once in the last few weeks, Bergoglio has used the phrase, "motus in fine velocior," - the movement at the end goes faster. We know that the Bergoglio confidant and ghostwriter, Victor Emmanuel Fernadez has said about him:
"The
pope must have his reasons, because he knows very well what he’s doing. He must
have an objective that we don’t understand yet. You have to realize that he is
aiming at a reform that is irreversible. If one day he should intuit that he’s
running out of time and he doesn’t have enough time to do what the Spirit is
asking him, you can be sure he will speed up."
What are we to conclude from this "speeding up?"
- Bergoglio knows his time is short due to health and will die soon.
- Bergoglio and his minions know that they must ram this heresy and sacrilege through before enough Catholics wake up and rise up against them.
- Bergoglio and his minions know that their generation is quickly dying and that those coming up in the next generation as priests will be formed by Summorum Pontificum and become valiant soldiers of Christ. This is why he is attacking "rigid" seminarians and will soon take moves against orthodox seminaries as he has done to prevent Ordinaries from establishing new Orders without his approval.
It really doesn't matter. The fact is, by their actions, these men, including the Bishop of Rome, have revealed to the faithful that they have no faith. They hate the faith, they hate the Catholic Church. They may not know it, but that is what is revealed by their actions. At best, they have drunk from the whore known as Modernism, "the synthesis of all heresies."
When we hear a Pope speak such words as motus in fine velocior, remember who else is angry because "his time is short."
Further reading on these matter can be found at:
The article concludes:
In
this regard, he stressed the key pontificate Francisco, set out in paragraph 4
of Bula who wrote the Jubilee of Mercy "come to mind the words laden with
meaning that John XXIII spoke at the opening of Council to indicate the way forward:
` in our time, the spouse of Christ prefers to use the medicine of mercy rather
than take up arms severity . The Catholic Church, by raising through this
Ecumenical Council torch of Catholic truth, wants to be friendly mother of all
benign, patient, full of mercy and kindness to separated children." Unlike
with Protestants Some
voices say that the Church might be embracing the Protestant Reformation, the
Dean of the Rota explains that "Luther destroyed the Catholic faith of the
apostles. The Catholic Church believes that in the Eucharist Jesus Christ is
present, and Protestantism does not believe in the real presence of Christ in
communion. This is the big difference."
In
this respect and during the conference, he recalled that during the synod of
bishops, some Synod fathers asked the Pope for a new theological treatise on
marriage and Francisco ruled it since said that other parents had already made
it clear theology of marriage. (translation confusion)
He
recalled that the Pope's message center Francisco is to all those who have
felt, or feel, discarded or injured by the Church. He also noted that
currently, many people communicant indiscriminately." A nun told me there
divorced or living together who are communing. And what must the Church say,
yes or no? Pope Francis wants a church close to town."
How wonderful to know that the Church is now governed by those who take the word of some nun, probably in a pant-suit.